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Sure enough, the netizen in Ji 'an, a powerful forum, made a special discussion, which just gave me a chance to talk about the gender of dragon and phoenix again. First of all, according to the author's research, the animals of the zodiac are all animals that really existed in nature, and all animals have both sexes. Therefore, there is no doubt that dragons have males and females and phoenixes have males and females. People will ask the gender of the dragon because the animal dragon has become extinct or disappeared from people's sight (I think the prototype of the dragon is the giant salamander, that is, the giant salamander, see the article "The Origin of Lights and the Extinction of the Dragon"). Secondly, the gender of dragons is clearly recorded in ancient books. "Notes": "Shunshi, Nanxun presented Maolong, a woman and a man, and set up the Dragon Palace. In Zhixia's generation, dragons were raised endlessly because of their longevity. " Guoyu Zheng Yu records that "the decline of summer also praised God, turning him into Erlong, making him communicate with Wang Ting", that is, Erlong openly copulated on the Wang Ting, and his lewd liquid was collected in Zhou Liwang and Wang Xuan. Third, phoenix, phoenix and phoenix belong to phoenix, of course, they are male and female. But in China, people often regard Phoenix as a male representative and Phoenix as a female representative. For example, "Phoenix seeking phoenix" is used to describe "talented people and beautiful women chasing after". Fourthly, in China traditional culture, when dragons and phoenixes are mentioned side by side, dragons often represent masculinity or femininity, while phoenixes represent femininity or femininity. For example, call the emperor a dragon and the queen a phoenix; Give birth to a boy who wants to be a dragon and a girl who wants to be a phoenix. However, it should be pointed out that this concept was formed in the Han Dynasty, which may be related to Liu Bang's claim to be emperor. Before the Han Dynasty, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, people didn't have the concept of "Dragon Yang and Phoenix Yin", so Confucius compared himself to a phoenix and Lao Zi to a dragon. In fact, in an older concept, people often use the phoenix (bird) to represent masculine things, such as the sun with golden phoenix and the male with birds. Fifth, in the zodiac culture, what kind of animal a person belongs to has nothing to do with his gender. Every animal sign has men and women. Therefore, restoring the original name of the Year of the Rooster to the Year of the Rooster does not affect people's correct distinction between animal sign and gender. Sixth, the cultural connotation of dragons and phoenixes, in addition to gender collocation, refers to the aggregation and integrity of two beautiful things. For example, Confucius thought that "I am a husband until the phoenix bird arrives" because the dragon and phoenix no longer appear (the river map is presented by the dragon, and the river is generally where the dragon is). From this point of view, there are dragons and phoenixes in the zodiac, which should be the embodiment of the concept of dragon and phoenix becoming auspicious in the zodiac culture.